76.2% —
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Darwin Waterfront Precinct · Council (LGA)
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over three quarters of residents in the Darwin Waterfront Precinct have moved house recently. This area is defined by high mobility, with a population that changes far more often than in other parts of the territory.
People who moved in the last five years.
A huge 76.2% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure far above the 42% seen across the Northern Territory and the 40.7% national average.
76.2% —
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
This high turnover is partly driven by overseas arrivals, who make up 29.7% of the population. This is well above the territory figure of 21% and far above the Australian average of 14.5%.
29.7% —
Higher than 94% of council (lga) areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Darwin Waterfront Precinct [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA71150/darwin-waterfront-precinct/topic/mobility-location